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WASHINGTON NOTES.
NOTES AND GOSSIP ABOUT THE
PRESIDENT AND THE CAPITAL.
The Prospect of an Extra sessions
The New Presidential Camping a
Drawing Near.
Special Correspondence Of the Seatu,el

Special Correspondence of tho Sentinel
WASHINGTON, March 11th, 1851
Although the marble halls OF the
Capitol were deserted by our law
makers week ago, many OF them still
linger in Washington, and will con-
tinue here for months to come The
northern Representatives are loath to
leave the mild Climate of the Capital
at this season OF the year, and are
always disposed to remain here, Con-
gress or no Congress until, as one Of
them remarked, it thdws out at home.
The air is still full of extra session
talk. Democratic members Of Con
gress and others who have means of
knowledge on the subject, do not now
believe that the Filtieth Congress will
be called together soon, but that an
extra session in the early autum i an
evil that ought 10 be faced.
The House Of Representatives that
was elected in November last, entered
upon its official existence on the eth Of
this month, and It's members are now
under pay. They are doing no ser
vice, and without Organization are
incapable Of doing any. It Is not until
they have assembled, elected speaker,
and been arranged in committee, that
they can enter upon the work Of legis-
lation. If Congress does not meet
until the usual time in December, IL
the light of many precedents little or
nothing can be expected Of ii until
the beginning of next year, for it is
we'll known that no Congres las at
tempted to do any real work until
after the holiday recess.
An extra session is always unpopu-
lar, and the President is anxious, Of
course, to avoid it, but in order Jhat
some of the important legislation to
come up during the next year may be
matured in time, it is thought to be
the only alternative. Those whose
counsel is frequently sought at the
White House now say that the con-
templated extra SESSION would begin
about the first Of October and run
along into the regular session, and
that the questions of revenue and
taxation would receive attention first.
II Another reason why it is deemed
| 6ADeutGllU W LldhS Glic L IIbltIiA 1Djl-
gress take advantage of extra time is
the TACT that the next year will be
devoted largely to President making
Although it seems but yesterday since
Mr. Cleveland WAS inaugurated, vet,
only fifteen months from now, will the
National Convention be held to nomi-
5 nate his successor. The two great
parties in Congress, when they assem-
e BILE after the holiday recess, will be
b surcharged with politics, and every
movement that is made at either end
. of the Capitol will have more or less
i reference to candidates and politics,
e and the issues of the ensuing campaign.
Between the friends of the Admin
istration on the one hand, intent on
0 maintaining its credit and vindicating
its record, and the opponents Of the
. Administration on the other, eager to
d disparage it in the confidence of the
people-between combinations here
/ and combinations there in the inter
u est of rival aspirants-th Capitol viii
partake far more of the character OF
IT an arena of partisan controversy. thar
n of serious and disinterested labor fol-
L the welfare of the country. Consider
o ing all this, the friends of the Admin
IS istration feel that the President woulc
d be entirely justified in promoting thu
n chances of legislation which the pub
l. lie interests demand by the call Of al
l. extra session.
= President Cleveland's care and in
- dustry in reading all bills, great ant
y small, and examining them PERSONAL,
= before signing his name to them, ha
- been criticised as an unnecessary as
-, sumption of labor on the part of tn
~ ~ Chief Executive. 1t is quite certain
- ~ Mr.. Cleveland has taken more pain
~ in this respect than any of his prede
~ cessors, and it cannot be said that an,
of his assistants ever wrote his sigma
~ ture to enacted laws This responsi
"A bility he never delegated to membe
~ :, of his Cabinet, even in the case of un
y important bills.
D. On the 4th of March, 1885, whe
le Mr.. Arthur and his Cabinet arrive
,y at the Capitol and entered the Pres
of large piles lay the bills to which hi
ly signature was to be affixed, one pc
If for the President was not enough
be Half dozen more pens were calle,
re for, the door was locked (the inaugr
of ration ceremonies were then waiting
IS, and in remarkably short space
to time every one of the bills had M
We Arthur's name to it. At the Stat
n Department where they can be e,
he amined the SIGNATURES to the bills {